Wailing at Wilga waterhole: Blood-curdling screams in the dark of night
“Suddenly there came a soft, distant walling that grew rapidly nearer and louder … the cries appeared to be in different keys – devilish, unearthly shrieking, such as no human voices ever uttered… The screaming, now ringing in their ears at deafening pitch, was coming from the waterhole. “The shearers thought their eardrums would burst,…